Wanting to code a Linux front end

[GundamSonicZeroX]

What's the best language to learn? Is it too terribly hard? I'd like to code a front end for Osmose, a Sega Master System emulator. The only problem, really is that it is CLI only. I do know of wxosmose, but I've only found it in .rpm format.

Thanks in advance,
GSZX

 

[KB]

The primary GUI toolkits for linux are GTK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B and Qt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28toolkit%29

Both toolkits have bindings for all major languages including C++, python, Java, and C# so pick whichever language you want. Since I use .Net I would pick C# and mono.
These toolkits do have a bit of a learning curve, but look through your distros programing applications to see if you already have something to help build the forms.

Since you mention RPM and not being able to use it, you must be using an APT distro like ubuntu? You could try Alien http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/20...ing-using-an-rpm-file/ to convert the RPM to something different.

 

[kamper]

I was gunna suggest wxwidgets (which has python and c++ apis) but I'm guessing wxosmose already uses that and it'd probably be easier to repackage the rpm than to rewrite the whole thing

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Thanks for the linky to wxwidgets. I tried to use alien on wxOsmose, but it won't startup. I found this tutorial, how is it?

Here's another one.